[GNC] clip board paste across catagories

[John Ralls]

> On Sep 29, 2020, at 8:31 PM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2020-09-29 20:13, John Ralls wrote:
>>> On Sep 29, 2020, at 5:58 PM, ToddAndMargo via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 2020-09-29 13:29, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
>>>> I am not an expert, but perhaps if you're writing the format yourself, maybe you could adopt an existing standard (e.g., QIF, QFX, CSV) and import that into GnuCash?
>>>> Also, Chapter 18 in the Guide is all about importing business data. Perhaps that might lead somewhere?
>>> 
>>> I have not read chapter 18 yet.
>>> 
>>> Do you know if there is a way to tell GnuCash to read
>>> a CSV from the command line?
>> Not yet, but ISTR that Geert has it planned. The issue will be when he has time to implement it.
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
> 
> Sounds promising.
> 
> Be nice it it would work whilst GnuCash is already running too
> 

That's won't be possible until we have transitioned from an everything-in-memory model to a database model. The alternative, having the command line invocation connect to the running GnuCash, requires multithreading and would
be even harder because of the several solar masses of static variables and non-reentrant functions.

Regards,
John Ralls